Students Set Example By Picking Up Litter

Letters to the Editor

WE STUDENTS are writing this letter in hope that everyone who reads this can have some sense knocked into their heads.

On July 3, a group of five friends went to Wooton Park in Tavares to watch the fireworks display.

Afterward, the sight of the park shocked us. There was garbage everywhere but the right place. We spent an hour at dark in the ants and mosquitoes, trying to clean up a small part of our environment. We picked up bottles, pizza boxes, string, balloons, straws, cups and much more.

Even though we could only clean up a small part of Tavares, hopefully we may have saved a bird or some kind of animal life. A bird could have swallowed a piece of a balloon or gotten string around its neck.

If humans don't do their part, we may not have another Fourth of July celebration at Wooton Park or anywhere else. We are asking residents to please do their job and don't leave their trash lying around for animals. It's not that hard. We had a 4-year-old boy helping us. He has more sense than those litterbugs that were there earlier in the day.